"Everyman" by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins
This modern riff on the 15th Century morality play Everyman follows Everybody as he travels down a road toward life's greatest mystery. Jacobs-Jenkins’s reimagining of Everyman eschews the original’s Christian doctrine for a more ambiguous reflection on contemporary values: The play ultimately argues that what survives of us is love, but that we each die alone.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, who The New York Times calls “one of this country’s most original and illuminating writers,” wrote Everybody in 2018. Based on the medieval morality play Everyman (or The Summoning of Everyman), Everybody is an allegorical quest in which the title character “Everybody” pleads with his companions—entities like “Kinship,” “Friendship,” “Stuff”—in the hope that one of them will accompany him to his appointment with Death. Everybody was critically praised on its off-Broadway debut and was nominated for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
This production does contain mature language and large ideals that will provide for wonderful conversations and discussions.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, who The New York Times calls “one of this country’s most original and illuminating writers,” wrote Everybody in 2018. Based on the medieval morality play Everyman (or The Summoning of Everyman), Everybody is an allegorical quest in which the title character “Everybody” pleads with his companions—entities like “Kinship,” “Friendship,” “Stuff”—in the hope that one of them will accompany him to his appointment with Death. Everybody was critically praised on its off-Broadway debut and was nominated for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
This production does contain mature language and large ideals that will provide for wonderful conversations and discussions.
Everyone is Someone : The Cast
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The Backstage Somebodies (Tech Crew) - Those That Do
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